Game of Thrones: The Legend of Jon Arctic - ASOIAF/GOT [Book - 1]

Chapter 68 - TimeSkip 3 Years (2-3)!

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Ducken POV

Arctican Realm, lands beyond the wall, 294 AC, During the second year of the 3-year Time Skip.

One year later.

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In an Arctic location, where the drills were being conducted, Ducken ordered "RAISE THE SHIELDS!" and saw 25,000 human soldiers obey the command exactly as he had given it. Ducken looked on proudly at how they acted as a single unit, knowing how such an army would be feared by the whole world.

He was disciplining a people who, until a few years ago, were very individualistic and disorganized, despite being the most fearsome warriors he had ever seen in one-on-one battles. Against groups and armies, they were very poor, 1,000 knights from the north could easily defeat 10,000 of them. But this began to change over the years, the group of stubborn individuals, who were even worse than the northerners from the other side of the wall, began to improve every day and became more disciplined. Initially, Ducken did not want to train them, did not want to command them, he lived and grew up knowing the terror of these people from the south of the wall, felt anger just by looking at them, but Jon asked him to give them a chance, that not all were wild savages, that perhaps their customs would change if their needs were not so desperate in this frozen desert that is the north of the wall, that while the people of the seven kingdoms have the south to buy food and survive the winter, the freefolks have to fend for themselves between life and death here, that most of their children don't even survive before the first two years after birth, they even have a culture where children are only named after this time.

Over time, Ducken came to understand them, aside from some wildlings with brutal cultures, the majority wanted to live a peaceful life away from hunger and cold, everyone who followed the laws of the Arctic is living in peace here, Jon really created a nation just as he said many years ago, although Ducken was very skeptical at the time and could not imagine in the slightest of his fantasies, what Arctic would be compared to the nation that is living now with four different races with everything it shelters.

Here, Ducken has to admit he lives a much better life than a great southern noble, food is fresher and much better than the lords of the houses can eat, common people have the most beautiful houses than most of the castles in the south, even though magically Arctic is much warmer than the lands outside of it, they still have a system of boiling water through piping that Jon and dwarves designed with waters that pass through the volcano and connect to all the houses, the entire population has besides hot water, cold water to fill their bathtub with the city's own water, there are also things like showers and toilets with a sewage system, inventions that Jon saw in the lands of the far east with Brynden, hygiene was on another level and sanitary diseases were nonexistent here.

In Arctic, there are also hot springs in some public places, where they can relax with their friends with a pleasant conversation. Ducken knows how dangerous it is to have a volcano in the middle of the city as the stories of what happened in Valyria, but Jon assured that thanks to the great Weirwood, its deep roots would take care of the balance to never let the dormant volcano reactivate and be dangerous for the inhabitants, his goal was always to create the largest city in the world, a city so large that it could even be called an entire country, the first magical nation in the world since the Valyrian kingdom, and Arctic will be much larger than the ancient land of the dragon lords, Ducken was absolutely sure about that.

And who is Ducken in all of this? Ducken Frost, the name that represents his house in Ártica with its own coat of arms. He is the general of the human army and supreme commander after the king, in the military force of this country. He knew he had never imagined leading tens of thousands of swords and shields and being responsible for thousands of lives. But Jon gave him this burden and made Ducken study military strategy with the king, although he did not participate in the other classes, this theme was addressed by Jon, creating for Ducken and all the military leaders to learn everything about war strategies and various scenarios against enemies and how to overcome disadvantages on battlefields. Ducken started as the king's royal guard, but some time after founding Ártica, the king himself mentioned the importance of training the army and how he was already training the giants, so, from that day, Ducken has been leading a large number of men and women freefolks directly, despite being hard-headed at first, over time they learned to execute his commands and everything he learned from Jon.